Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Battle for Homestead
Map of Pittsburgh
1. Homestead and the American Republic in the Gilded Age
2. 6 July 1892: "A Carnival of Revenge"
Part Two: Captains of Steel, Captains of Culture
Problems in Iron Production in the Mid 1800s
The Bessemer Process
4. Captains of Steel
Abram S. Hewitt and the Promise of the Open Hearth
Alexander Holley, Bessemer Engineering, and the Origins of Scientific Management
Part Three: Labor Reform in Pittsburgh, 1867-1881: From "Amalgamation" to the Brink of Collapse
5. Indicting and Embracing the Civilization of the Nineteenth Century
6. Roots of Labor Reform and Machine Politics
7. Custom Confronts Capital: The Lockout of 1874-1875
8. Toward a Wider Amalgamation: The Knights of Labor
9. Mill Owners and Machine Politicians on the Offensive
10. Miners Amalgamate in "Late Afternoon"
Part Four: "Tried and Found Faithful": Homestead Defies the Assault
11. Assaults on Labor
The Homestead Glassworks and the Knights of Labor
The Decision to Build a Steel Mill
William Clark and the First Homestead Steelworkers
12. The Homestead Strike of 1882
13. "Defense, Not Defiance": Defeat in the City and the State
Illustrations
Part Five: Labor in Greater Pittsburgh During the 1880s
14. A Tale of Two Cities: Pittsburgh and Homestead
15. Republican Recruits: East Europeans in Homestead
16. Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron and Philanthropist
17. The Homestead Lockout of 1889: The Making of a "Workers' Republic"
18. The Life and Times of "Beeswax" Taylor: Exemplary Paradoxes of American Labor
Part Six: 1892 and Beyond: Legacies of Homestead
19. Captains of Business, Captains of Politics
20. 1892: The Stakes for Labor
21. Silenced Minorities
22. Winners and Losers
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index